On 11/21/22 03:52, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2022 Sun, 20 Nov 12:01:43 -0800
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
[...]
Whenever I can live elsewhere, then I hope to get far enough away from dense
urban areas that I don't need a smartphone, and a landline and/or dumbphone
will do. Yes, there is still such a place in this world, where large areas
have no cellular coverage at all. While they have discovered the internet,
everybody seems blissfully unconcerned about smartphones, because they can't
get a signal, anyway.
Green Bank, West Virginia, for example. It's not allowed in the Free West to peak of the other regions.
Nik
Bill
Which, if you've time for demo of the stupidity a gvmnt agency, in this
care the FCC, can really screw things up hopelessly.
Background, early 2000's and they have published a list of the new
channel assignments we are supposed to use when we switch to digital.
I am the now 20 years retired, CE of WDTV-5 and at that point I called
Wes Sizemore, who is in charge of seeing to it that Grenn Bank is not
disturbed by any radio or tv signals getting into their dishes, Wes
wants to know what the frequency is, so I tell him and about 45 seconds
later, he asks if I'm sitting down. Fisher Hill, just north of Weston WV
is where the ch5 transmitter is, and has been since back in the '50's.
And we've been at full power output, 100kw, on channel 5 from the gitgo.
But.... Fisher Hill is about 3 miles INSIDE the Green Bank NRQZ.
Channel's 56 and 58 are what the FCC originally proposed for us, as we
had jut bought the remains of the bankrupt fox station.
Wes says he'll have to shut us down if we make more than 4.78 watts of
noise toward 270 degrees true. I take a deep breath and request an
official letter confirming that.
Which I got in due time, and dropped it on the copy machine for about 10
copies because I was going to have some fun with them at the annual NAB
in another month, going around to the various transmitter makers asking
for a quote for 2 transmitters and antenna's to be used. Most had real
engineers in their booths and got the message in 30 seconds or less and
we all had good laughs.
In the meantime, I had sicced our fcc lawyer after them. Their computer
completely forgot our transmitter on Fisher Hill was about 3 miles
inside the Green Bank NRQZ.
Took them a couple years, but they finally decided we could stay on ch-5.
That's good, but later side effects are the killers. We are the only low
band vhf broadcaster in the country now, and except for a run of 100 or
so, by channel master a couple years ago, no new low band antennas are
being made. So we've laid a high def fiber link to nearly all the cable
systems in our area.
I'm glad I retired 20 years ago. Somebody else can deal with the idiots now.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>
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